Monthly Archives: October 2014

Groups as well as individuals have identity – we know this from our long experience of running courses. Being a single apprentice in a workshop is a very different experience to being part of a group of people with shared intentions and interests. Being part of a group can, and should, be on enriching experience. The group will live in a shared house and will have single rooms so, after and around work there will be opportunity to socialise as a group but also to enjoy privacy.

There is no recipe for our yearly workshop programme, rather it is a puzzle that requires a lot of thinking and discussion!
We want to offer a cornucopia of experiences for beginners, advanced, throwers, hand builders, raku, jewellery, sculpture and paperclay freaks, wood- and soda firers.
Our circle of friends and fellow ceramicists is an inexhaustible inspiration for new or old topics to offer.
Various needs have to be met so that the elaboration of the final programme with as many as 26 different workshops, complete with a meaningful description and images lasts all through the year.
When finally the programme is on – line, we are ready for a toast!Check it out and let us know your thoughts. We are open to your suggestions!

At La Meridiana we have run one and two week courses for over three decades. We have had workshop assistants/trainees who have stayed for various periods between several months to over a year.But 2015 will be the first year we offer ON CENTRE, a twelve week course, aimed specifically at giving the opportunity to develop repetition throwing of domestic items to a professional level, open to a small group. The course will be demanding. We are confident that, with sustained concentration and hard work, a good level can be reached in the three months and the latter stages of the period will give time for more personal development.
In developing fluent skill participants will, of course, glaze and fire a considerable body of work so that fluency of making is matched by knowledge and fluency in finishing work. Find here the full course description